Aged care residents tackle their bucket lists

Many of us have a bucket list of things we want to do before we die.

And of course many of us worry that we might not get the chance to do them before we’re “too old”.

But one aged care facility in Melbourne is breaking the “too old” thinking, by giving its residents the chance to tick things off their bucket list.

As Nine News reports, a group of residents from Mercy Place Montrose have ticked taking a joyride in a Tiger Moth and skydiving off their bucket lists recently.

70-year-old resident Margaret Cook told Nine she didn’t know why she wanted to do it.

“I just thought ‘why not’,” she said.

It turns out Mercy Health Montrose has an innovation program that allows its residents to fulfil some of their wishes on their bucket list – no matter how extreme they may be!

Deidre Halligan from Mercy told Nine that the residents had been counting down to their fun filled adventures.

“When someone gets of age, people presume they can’t do something,” she said.

“They’re probably fitter than you or I ever will be.”

How great is that?!

Have you ever skydived? What’s left to cross off on your bucketlist?